Comments on: Ho-(Book)Bag: The Tits and Sass Book Club Begins with Zone One

By: Luise

Luise — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:06:22 +0000

Hi,
I’m not currently reading the book, but I’m going to look out for it. I just wanted to point out this nice resnark to that horrible review to you: http://io9.com/5856158/why-science-fiction-writers-are-like-porn-stars

By: mj

mj — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:29:27 +0000

I’m in! This book looks awesome.

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:55:53 +0000

Oooh, I am in for the bookclub-ery, as long as it never involves bios about ‘unlikely strippers’.

By: mumtaza

mumtaza — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:58:29 +0000

I enjoy both reading and banging extreme sports stars on blow. Thanks for the suggestions.

By: Jamie Ridenhour

Jamie Ridenhour — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:04:10 +0000

Clarification–I did not mean in any way to equate the word “whore” with “porn star” in my comment above. I merely wanted to highlight Duncan’s own professed motivation for writing his novel.

By: Jamie Ridenhour

Jamie Ridenhour — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:45:26 +0000

The biggest irony here is that Glen Duncan is a writer of “literary” fiction who has recently published a foray into genre territory–The Last Werewolf. Whereas Whitehead has given several interviews that effectively reject the lowbrow/highbrow split by talking about he has always loved zombie stories, Duncan’s PR push for Last Werewolf included a standard narrative that he decided to write a werewolf novel because he was tired of not making any money. He then goes on to amazingly discover that you can write good prose while using genre tropes. So, yes, there are whores at work here.

The difference is in more than attitude. Duncan’s book is so self-conciously “literary” that it’s an effective primer in what’s wrong with literary fiction today. I’m glad he enjoyed Whitehead’s book. He could learn a lot from the better writer.

By: chelsea g. summers

chelsea g. summers — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:20:14 +0000

Excellent. I’m about 100 pages in.